Ivanka Trump is now apparently usurping the role as "First Lady" to push her father toward a more liberal agenda. Eww?

If there were any question whether Ivanka’s deep involvement in her father’s divisive campaign would ruin her social standing among liberals, here was her answer: Less than two months before Election Day, she was still a member of the club — albeit with a full security detail keeping her at a slight remove.

Ivanka, 35, Trump’s avatar among the moneyed left-wing elite, is now poised to be the first “first daughter” in modern history to play a larger public role than the first lady. And she’s positioning herself exactly as she did that weekend — as a bridge to moderates and liberals disgusted and depressed with the tone and tenor of the new leader of the free world.

And the ambitious daughter, who once plotted her career around international brand domination, is planning to take on an even heavier lift. Ivanka wants to make climate change — which her father has called a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese — one of her signature issues, a source close to her told Politico. The source said Ivanka is in the early stages of exploring how to use her spotlight to speak out on the issue.

Okay while I appreciate at least somebody advocating for protecting this planet, does it HAVE to come with so many incestuous overtones?

I mean the First Lady is the first lady, and the daughter is supposed to just show up for photo-ops and to help her father demonstrate his family values. Right?

But apparently there is a void and Ivanka aims to fill it:

Trump’s third wife, Melania, has made no public appearances or statements since Election Day, save for the family’s joint “60 Minutes” interview. (The Slovenian-born former model has been spotted outside of her home in Trump Tower only twice — dining privately and silently at 21 and at Serafina with family members).

Instead, it’s Ivanka’s expressionless exterior — and continued comfort and acceptance in the social circles that recoil at Trump pére — that are gelling into the lead family role for the most temperamental and mercurial incoming president in the country’s history.

Oh man, what in the hell were those Trump voters thinking?

Look I hope that Ivanka is able to change her father's mind on climate change, I really do.

I just hope that she does not have to get all Genesis 19:33 to convince him.

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Call me optimistic, but I think this family will NOT get into the WH. I think the recounts will show what we knew all along:Hillary Clinton is our POTUS, not this bunch of greedy entitled selfish jerks. And that will be a Merry Christmas!

It gets weirder and weirder. Trump will be hugging and kissing Ivanka as much as he can out there--we know he tries to already b/c he's said so. We've been seeing Ivanka fill in for pathetic Melania for almost two years now, and clearly Melania both has no interest in acting like a First Lady and no ability to handle herself in the most basic of apt ways. Trump keeps Jared Kushner as close as possible and lives through him to be a kind of husband to Ivanka. This is all so icky.

She is too busy caring for her autistic son and we really can't blame her for that. I can't, anyway. Think of how Palin ignores TriG and used him for her own purposes.Melanomia can get the heat off her if she just fesses up about autism.

MADISON, Wis. -- A federal court in Wisconsin on Friday rejected an attempt by pro-Donald Trump groups to stop a recount of the state’s presidential vote, saying there was no harm in allowing it to continue.

Two pro-Trump political action committees and a Wisconsin voter on Thursday filed a lawsuit and a request for a temporary restraining order seeking to stop the recount, arguing that it was an unconstitutional violation of the Constitutional rights of people who had voted for Trump.

But U.S. District Judge James Peterson on Friday denied the motion to temporarily halt the recount, saying there would be no harm in allowing it to proceed while the state prepares arguments in defense.

Peterson scheduled a hearing for Dec. 9 on the underlying lawsuit.

In Michigan, Mr. Trump has filed a lawsuit to stop an election recount in Michigan that is scheduled to begin next week.

The filing Friday comes after the state elections board deadlocked on his request to deny the recount, which means it will likely start Wednesday unless the courts intervene....

I am SO THANKFUL for my wonderful friends who have my best interest at heart!! That's what friendship is all about. Not how your friend can benefit you BUT where your loyalty and morals lie with them & your friendship.I'm a very loving, caring & loyal friend. Unfortunately those things don't get returned from everyone. I hate to end friendships but it's a necessity. I wish people would have their true agendas and motives stamped on their forehead so you could just skip all the BS. Stab me in the back once shame on you, stab me in the back twice shame on me. BYEEEEE!!!!

The DDD (dishonest, deceiving, disgusting) U.S. mainstream media is freaking out, saying that the Chinese communist regime will be upset because Trump spoke on the phone with the President of Taiwan. This is actually excellent that he spoke with Taiwan - very, very good!The world should stop being such cowards regarding the Chinese regime and should stop taking orders from this barbaric regime, such as obeying orders in regards to who the U.S. President is permitted to speak with on the phone and having the U.S. President tell the Dalai Lama to enter through the back entrance of the White House when meeting the President.

for the record, China bullies people via facebook which makes Zuck's asskissing the regime disgusting.

Michigan's elections board has deadlocked on President-elect Donald Trump's request to prevent a recount, which means it will start next week unless the courts intervene...

A Wisconsin recount is underway, though his supporters have filed a federal lawsuit trying to stop in. In Pennsylvania, Trump is asking a court to dismiss Stein's recount request....

Trump, PA Republicans ask for recount dismissal

Trump's margin of victory in Pennsylvania is shrinking as more counties finish tallying their votes.An updated count Friday by state election officials shows Trump's lead over Democrat Hillary Clinton has shrunk to 49,000, from 71,000....

@5:45 and Chris Murphy : that's. Why there's supposed to be a co.petent transition team. So if there is such a shift, it occurs smoothly and without destroying/affecting other areas . It's called statesmanship and diplomacy and T.Rump is a failure at both.before he even gets into office.

@5:45 and Chris Murphy : that's. Why there's supposed to be a co.petent transition team. So if there is such a shift, it occurs smoothly and without destroying/affecting other areas . It's called statesmanship and diplomacy and T.Rump is a failure at both.before he even gets into office.

This disaster of a president-elect seems to think that he is already president, and not only that, but king of the world. But, he is instead a bull in a china shop and the world is the china shop.

How can it be anything else with an ego maniac who won't read anything (he knows everything already which is quite a feat for someone who reads nothing), he won't talk to anyone who does know anything --- it can only be a nightmare for all of us.

Please electoral college members, see this, do your job and keep this clearly unqualified mess out of the oval office.

7:42pm: The Electoral College has been bought. They all get a bonus if/when they vote for the Orange a$$. And if they don't, then they will be harassed and haunted for the rest of their lifes. Until it ends either naturally or in suicide, i.e. maybe an 'unfortunate accident'.

Not so funny about the domestic violence...Sarah must have a bot do her retweeting.

"“You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually it’s quite fun to fight them, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up there with you. I like brawling.”"

This whole bringing about WW 3 so the rapture can occur agenda thingy has been going WAAAAAY to slow;y for some. So, stage a coup and bring it on!We are watching it happen.Sanity needs to prevail and quickly people!!

Melania IS the FLOTUS. Why has she disappeared? She is not along with Trump's Victory Tour (BTW - are tax payers paying for this?). She is not moving to the WH. Hell, maybe she won't go to the Inauguration ball.

Yeah, I was just wondering that. Will Ivanka be dancing with her father? Nah, I bet Melania will show up. If something involves putting on fancy clothes, she'll be there. God, Melania is such an ass. She is completely unable to just act like a normal adult.

Ivanka as de facto FLOTUS isn't weird, it's downright creepy.But I do wonder. If Barron is indeed autistic, as I'm inclined to believe as the parent of two boys who are "on the spectrum," then maybe shielding is the best thing his mother could do for him.

I see, yet I have to feel for all the people of Manhattan and what they will have to put up with if Melania and Barron stay in their tower. He can go to a great school in DC. Plus if she's just going to shield him from everything, then she and Trump will be hiding who Barron is from the whole country, and to me it brings back memories of the Kennedy sister. Joe Kennedy was a jerk and ruined his daughter's health by forcing that lobotomy and then they hid her. In 2016 I would hope that a boy with some degree of impairment wouldn't be presented to the public oh-so carefully and to hide that he is autistic. They have had him at some events and I assume he'll be at more. At some point he won't just be standing there silently among all his other family members. Unless things remain very controlled. If they have been very carefully orchestrating those times when we see Barron, they won't be able to keep it up forever.

...Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in an op-ed for the Young Conservatives website called the deal, which was reportedly negotiated by Vice President-elect Mike Pence, an example of government intervention that could lead to "crony capitalism."

Palin said in the op-ed "I am ecstatic for Carrier employees!" But she wrote that while she didn't yet know the full terms of the deal, the negotiation could signal an abandonment of fiscal conservatism and stimulus packages that, if pursued, would mean the country is "doomed."....

She's not anywhere going rogue on Donald like Sarah Palin is! I'm watching Lawrence O'Donnel & Sarah is slamming Trump's carrier deal calling it the same old "crony capitalism". Lawrence intimated that someone has their panties in a wad because she isn't going to be anything important in his admin.

Why WOULD he actually choose her for anything? You want basically a housewife who has a bare understanding of anything and quit her job to run the VA, are you kidding me? And I'm sure his most intelligent advisors said so.

She sucks up Donald's oxygen, she can't be trusted to speak like she's not on booze or pills, she engages in brawls and you never know when one of her kids are going to jail. She's a world wide laughing stock and embarrassment to the USA.

This is the first time I feel like thanking Sarah....please DO GO ROGUE on the Donald!

One faction of her supporters were trying to tell her that Donald was using her and begged her to listen to them. Well obviously they were right. Strippers and poles lol. If she thought she was being considered for a serious position in Donald's admin. to make a bunch of money she probably wouldn't be complaining.

Oh Dakota, you must be disappointed to find out you married into a family of grifters making their living off the government and that everything Sarah promised you that if you marry her daughter, will never come true. You are stuck with duh Bristol and her mother lol.

Too bad, so sad. You belong with all the people who have ever tried to make a buck because the President bestowed you with a Medal of Honor and I think you were the first because they are usually bestowed p

lol she doesn't want any job with anybody! She just wants to rake in money and TV time above all else. After all she's famous and should be able to take all she wants from the taxpayers without actually working for it. QUITTER. Now where's my bubble bath and People magazine?

Duhkota,the rent-a-dad. Barred from the military prom. Disgraced himself with fraudulent stories,then buried himself hooking up with palins. Type in joey junker on net. There are pictures of junker alongside pics of sailor. Striking resemblance in their eyes and mouth.

Heard that still gorgeous hunk Scott Brown,a veteran and former Senator with 35 years of service and he must have some brains because Warren endorsed him even though he's an R is getting the nod for VA post.

"Interesting how the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call from someone praising me which is all I live for, that and money, and maybe there's an opportunity for me to score some money here too, so to hell with all you critical losers. Sad!"

Career personnel at the State Department must be banging their heads on any available table by now. Trump has no clue about diplomacy! He's going to govern the country and be a world leader (!) with the mind of a ten year old (at best) and the personality of a four year old.Beaglemom

And that DC hotel is supposedly really Ivanka's baby. Is she going to part ways with it? Well, once 1/20 comes, the experts say, they can't have anything to do with it or Trump will be breaking the law. You know, I can picture them unloading that hotel. Trump thought the closest he'd ever get to the WH was that hotel. They may now feel that they don't need it.

Trump is a such a jerk! His daughter, Ivanka, as 'lst daughter', is coming to his rescue to try and make her Dad (as well as their family) appear acceptable!

The family is just blaw if you watch their physical appearances on camera and in photos. Forced smiles, no laughter, rigid, formal, placid and plastic! Plus, they are members of the elite of New York City!

I find all of them very uninviting - especially in serving as the family of the pending potus. They remind me of the Adams Family - that was on TV years ago! All we need now is the same music that played on that TV show when the Trump family appears together in the news media.

Why shouldn't Donald's daughter Ivanka be thought of as the first lady? Look at all the pictures of him feeling her up since she was a child up through the convention. Melania can't speak unless she plagarizes...she has no education & models for men's magazines.

creepy !!!! (but I also hope she can convince him to at least not blow the planet up entirely)

OTDid sarah palin really calld don the con's deal with Carrier “crony capitalism” ??????we really do live in bizzaro world now--that deal is the worst - using tax payer money for years to save 1000 jobs (where the salary was slashed and benefits reduced a lot) and the dangerous precendent he set (think of all the companies now that will "treaten" to leave just get tax payer money) - but the fools who voted for him will lap it up

don the con will continue his lies and get away with it = people don't want facts any more they want made up crap that makes them "feel" good - yesterday I literally had an argument with a young man who said (I kid you NOT) the earth is flat, all those photos we see of "space" are photoshopped - he said he deals in facts go look them up (on the internet of course) and that everything the government says is a lie. So the repugs have done a good job of dumbing down our society - and if they no longer trust the government and schools - and no longer deal in reality - our future is so screwed I can't even wrap my brain around it.

WHOA!!! 'First DAUGHTER???' How can she be getting the job of the 'first lady'??? How/why should she be getting top secret clearance??? Wasn't she the one seen on vacation with Putin's girlfriend just this summer??? Or was that Melanoma?

... guess Drumpf is ready to divorce Melania and marry Ivanka. We all knew it was a matter of time.

... hope Ivanka is smart enough to get a good prenup.

PS: A side note to warn y'all that sarcasm is totally lost on the Trumpeteers when engaging on Twitter. I replied to one by calling Drumpf the new Grande Wizard Poo-bah of America and they delightedly re-tweeted the shit out of it.

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